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Rosenstein Secret Special Counsel Memo Was Written After the Feds Already Raided Manafort’s House
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Posted on 04/03/2018 9:28:18 PM PDT by Bigtigermike

The memo gives Mueller a more specific description of his authority and states that he can investigate Paul Manafort for any “crimes arising out of payments he received from the Ukrainian government before and during the tenure of President Viktor Yanukovych.” And that’s pretty much what Manafort was indicted for.

Here’s the weird part about this: The Rosenstein “secret” memo revealed in this week’s court filing is dated August 2, 2017. According to media reports, Paul Manfort’s home was raided July 26, 2017. So that means Rosenstein’s laid out the more specified scope and definition of authority for the special counsel investigation six days after Manafort’s home had already been raided.

What does this mean legally? Well, as always, the the legal experts are divided.

“There is something very wrong about that,” said Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz on Fox News Tuesday night, adding that the scope of the investigation should be clearly defined. “This special prosecutor is looking at everything. Where does it stop?”

(Excerpt) Read more at lawandcrime.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alandershowitz; deepstate; democrats; doj; fbi; jamescomey; lisapage; manafort; michaelcohen; mueller; paulmanfort; peterstrzok; robertmueller; rodrosenstein; rosenstein; rosensteinmemo; russia; specialcounsel; trump; witchhunt
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1 posted on 04/03/2018 9:28:18 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
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To: Bigtigermike

Rosenstein and Mueller covering their butts?


2 posted on 04/03/2018 9:29:14 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Bigtigermike

Rosenstein’s corruption is becoming more and more exposed. Soon he will be gone.


3 posted on 04/03/2018 9:30:56 PM PDT by DarthVader ("The biggeest misconception on Free Republic is that the Deep State is invulnerable")
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To: Bigtigermike

The ends justify the means—

Jeff Sessions farked us.


4 posted on 04/03/2018 9:33:56 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Jeff Sessions IS the insurance policy)
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To: Bigtigermike
WHERE'S SLEEPY SESSIONS AT? SLEEPY SESSIONS!

Here, I saved you mean-old FReepers time. BWHAHAHAHAHAHA! Look at Sessions as Granny!

5 posted on 04/03/2018 9:34:36 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Democracy: The cliff's edge of Marxism)
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To: Bigtigermike

“Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime.”.

Robert Beria Mueller


6 posted on 04/03/2018 9:39:10 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: DarthVader

Sessions needs to be gone for hiring Rosenweasel. At the very least he showed unbelievably bad judgement which merits his firing.


7 posted on 04/03/2018 9:42:40 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: Bigtigermike

The special counsel has become a general prosecutor.


8 posted on 04/03/2018 9:43:31 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: DarthVader

Now I understand which book Susan Rice was referring to in her Jan 20 email to herself - Rosenstein’s.


9 posted on 04/03/2018 9:52:02 PM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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To: Bigtigermike
Something interesting to consider... Mueller has his sights on Russian oligarch Oleg Daripaska. Remember that name. President Trump has no ties whatsoever to Oleg Daripaska -- but Paul Manafort and John McCain most certainly do. Are we about to see the "dossier" boomerang on Trump's enemies?
10 posted on 04/03/2018 9:53:49 PM PDT by Always A Marine ("I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation")
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To: Bigtigermike

Seems like it should be stereotypical of an abusive partisan fishing expedition posing as an investigation.


11 posted on 04/03/2018 9:56:24 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: DarthVader

Rosenstein’s corruption is becoming more and more exposed. Soon he will be gone.///

If only....

But since js considers rosenslime to be a man of “high integrity” I doubt it.


12 posted on 04/03/2018 9:57:06 PM PDT by Ceebass (RIP MAGA June 16 2015 - March 23 2018)
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Does this mean Ole Rod is part of the swamp? Maybe a top operator?


13 posted on 04/03/2018 9:57:30 PM PDT by umgud
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To: Bigtigermike

This was to enable Mueller to turn to the left and go after the Podesta Group, of course.


14 posted on 04/03/2018 9:59:17 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust Sessions. The Great Awakening is at hand...MAGA!)
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To: jospehm20

Try keeping up to speed.
Sessions didn’t hire Rosenstein, Trump did.


15 posted on 04/03/2018 10:01:17 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Democracy: The cliff's edge of Marxism)
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To: Bigtigermike; ransomnote; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; ...

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16 posted on 04/03/2018 10:01:35 PM PDT by bitt (The first to squeal gets the best deal.)
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To: Ceebass

It’s out of Sessions hands. This will be forced.


17 posted on 04/03/2018 10:03:06 PM PDT by DarthVader ("The biggeest misconception on Free Republic is that the Deep State is invulnerable")
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

The lily-livered peckerless leprechaun chose Rosenstein for his DAG. Not by chance either.


18 posted on 04/03/2018 10:05:03 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Jeff Sessions IS the insurance policy)
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To: Parley Baer
18 U.S. Code § 2384 - Seditious conspiracy If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both. (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 808; July 24, 1956, ch. 678, § 1, 70 Stat. 623; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(N), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148.)
19 posted on 04/03/2018 10:05:34 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist; jospehm20

RR was recommended by others in the DOJ to replace insubordinate Yates.

The President was still very new on the job with leakers and devices everywhere.


20 posted on 04/03/2018 10:05:44 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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